[Synotic]

I myself don't need this info. But the person who did was having some trouble having cocoa read resource files. The app will be a Theme Maker for OS X. Right now we decided on ThemeFactory. It's probobally going to change. Anyways, if you have any info on how a cocoa app might open a resource file such as Extras.rsrc please at least steer him in the right direction. Thanks,

synotic@mac.com

[Dalgo]

I think that in extras.rsrc all of the resources are in the data fork and not the resource fork so that's probably where your confusion lies. You can just read the data fork into an NSData object. On the other hand, if you need more flexibility, which is likely since NSData objects aren't as useful as they could be, then just use some file manager functions. If you have the developer tools installed, then you can find the documentation at

file:///Developer/Documentation/Carbon/Files/FileManager/File_Manager/File_Manager.html

Hint: You can still use the standard unix style of paths when you use the file manager functions. Just use the FSPathMakeRef function to convert it into an FSRef for use with the file manager.

[Angus_D]

There is no API in Cocoa for manipulating resource forks. You'll have to use Carbon. Even if you get the .rsrc file into an NSData, that's probably not terribly useful. See http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?UsingResourceForks